Will mark stale widgets in Dashing

application.scss

$background-stale-color-1: #cc9999;
$background-stale-color-2: #333333;
$text-stale-color: #fff;

@-webkit-keyframes status-stale-background {
  0%   { background-color: $background-stale-color-1; }
  50%  { background-color: $background-stale-color-2; }
  100% { background-color: $background-stale-color-1; }
}

.widget.status-stale {
  background-color: $background-stale-color-1;
  @include animation(status-stale-background, 2s, ease, infinite);

  .icon-warning-sign {
    display: inline-block;
  }
    .title, .more-info {
    color: $text-stale-color;
  }
}

stale-widgets.rb

require 'rubygems'

threshold = 7200
stale = "stale"

SCHEDULER.every '1m' do
  widgets = Sinatra::Application.settings.history
  total = 0
  
  widgets.each do |key, value|
    update_s =  value.to_s.slice(value.to_s.index("updatedAt")+11..-1).tr('}','').strip   
    
    updated = update_s.to_i
    now = Time.new().to_i
    diff = now-updated
    min = diff/60
    if diff>threshold
      puts "Stale widget (" + key.to_s + ") update time: " + min.to_s + " minutes ago."
      send_event(key.to_s, { status: stale })
      total = total + 1
    end
  end
  puts "Stale widgets: " + total.to_s
  send_event("stale_widgets", { value: total, current: total })
  
end

could you enlighten me on how this is supposed to work b/c i'm having a heck of a time with it. once it is determined that the widget is stale , the next time the job runs it's updating the status of the widget and in turn the updatedAt is changing, so the widget is no longer stale, even though the job that initially updated the widget . am i missing something or is this the intent? from what i gathered from your blog. a widget would remain in a state of stale until the widget had been updated again by the job that originally put/pushed data to the widget.

you sir are a genius! i have no idea what i was doing wrong, but i now have it working like a champ. going to let it run all night and see how things look in the morning. this is going to be a great tool for our IT Dept! thanks for the work you put into this.